How to Connect WordPress to Claude for AI-Powered Content Operations

Connect WordPress to Claude

WordPress is the world's most-used CMS. With AnythingMCP and Claude, you can run editorial workflows — content refresh, SEO optimisation, scheduled publishing, internal linking, comment moderation — entirely with natural language.

What You Can Do

• "Find every post about 'machine learning' published over 6 months ago and refresh the top 5."
• "Update the Yoast meta description on post 412 to a 155-character summary."
• "Move all comments by 'Anonymous' on post 87 to spam."
• "Schedule a draft post titled 'September product update' for next Tuesday at 10 AM Europe/Berlin."
• "Walk me through your Site Health checks and tell me what to fix."

Setup

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d

1. Generate a WordPress Application Password in /wp-admin/profile.php → Application Passwords. (HTTPS required.)
2. Open http://localhost:3000/connectors/store, import the WordPress adapter.
3. Supply WORDPRESS_URL, WORDPRESS_USERNAME, WORDPRESS_APP_PASSWORD.
4. Assign the connector to an MCP server.

Connect Claude

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wordpress": { "url": "http://localhost:4000/mcp" }
  }
}

Skill Tools (the AI-native edge)

Claude reads only the tool list by default. When you ask "refresh stale content", Claude calls wordpress_skill_content_refresh and receives the full step-by-step recipe on demand — listing the stalest posts, reading bodies, rewriting, persisting. This keeps the context window light and the workflow explicit.

Available skills:

• wordpress_skill_seo_content_pipeline
• wordpress_skill_content_refresh
• wordpress_skill_scheduled_publishing
• wordpress_skill_internal_linking
• wordpress_skill_media_optimization

SEO Meta (Yoast & Rank Math)

Call wordpress_list_seo_meta_keys to get a reference card of all the Yoast and Rank Math meta keys exposed via REST. Then use wordpress_update_post_meta to set them.

wordpress_update_post_meta(postId=42, meta={
  "_yoast_wpseo_metadesc": "A practical guide to ...",
  "_yoast_wpseo_focuskw": "wordpress ai workflows"
})

Rank Math uses rank_math_description, rank_math_focus_keyword, rank_math_title.